I guess “actual pool” requires a hall to have enough completely identical tables to have a tournament with pocket openings that follow the accepted standard . Since there is no standard, then there is no “actual” pool anywhere.
My “hustle” is an “actual" business and I’m finally getting rich (by my modest expectations). You know: fancy car and waterfront house.
My target market is people who have enough money to pay extra for a visually and ‘culturally’ interesting environment. So the variety of styles of beautiful furniture, the fifteen different colours of cloth, and the labour intensive artwork everywhere attract many non-players, especially women.
That nines are 75% of my 24 tables, is not just because I believe that is the “actual” size, but the clueless paying public clearly prefers them.
Players prefer them, of course.
And they like that ten of the nines are technical tables on which our tournaments are played: Rasson, Sam (think Predator), Unik, etc.
And I only use powder blue cloth on them because the balls (Duramith, mind you) stand out better than tournament blue.
And every visiting pro has commented positively on the upkeep of the cloth.
And even the actual Players like all this.
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